Morton should take a freshman Geology course if he wants to understand climate change. It would all come into focus then.
Agreed. Better yet, a course in historic geology. But to comprehend the "hyperobject" of deep time and the cosmic unimportance of human beings in the great scheme of things would require him to give up his colossal sense of hubris.
While C02 is the *product* of warming rather than its *cause,* one wonders how the writer can explain he high levels of C02 in the Pliocene, as mentioned in the article.
Maybe, maybe not.
Geology is also problematic, since so many (known and unknown?) factors affect the results and the available evidence. Most of my knowledge of Geology is owed to working with professional geologists over a few decades.
The role of geology isn't that obvious, but I learned many new things only after I retired from the following book :
Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future, 2011, by Doug Macdougall
It is not intuitive that having a working knowledge of Geology has a solid link to the modern, chaotic, contentious, often fraudulent "Global warming" foodfight.
But it sure does.